Lakers gotta be excited for this version of Luka. He was really impressive this tournament

Not to be overly simplistic, but when your team is a star and a bunch of limited role players, those role players have to either play great defense or make spot up shots. Non Luka slovenians shot 4 for 23 from 3, and they don’t have any athleticism to play good defense.

Luka was what he was supposed to be, but the burden on him was way too big, you can’t expect him to be fresh in the fourth quarter like that

One of the worst reffed games I ve ever seen and I ve seen a lot of bad ones

Franz Wagner was 5-17 and Dennis was 6-20 I can’t believe they still won the game.

coulda been a fun game but Refs decided they are the main character today

Refs made this such a slog to watch

Luka’s teammates totally lost composure and went ice cold in the 4th :(

that halfcourt shot by Tristan to end the 3rd was fucking huge, and then 7-0 run to start the 4th was just sad.

Showing this game to anyone who says FIBA reffing is any better than the NBA

How Luka didn’t get multiple techs for complaining is beyond me

Tristan da Silva MVP

Anyone else want their nba team to sign Obst? I swear that guy shoots 50% from 3 everytime I watch him

One of the worst reff’d games I’ve seen in a long time. A call every single trip down the floor is horrible for the sport

Awful to watch. Luka was great however he had no help. If his teammates were somewhat competent we’d have lost.

GG

For those who don’t know, Euroleague doesn’t give games to refs who do FIBA competitions. So the best refs never are at international games. That’s why we get horror shows like these. Not that Euroleague games are perfect, but they’re still better.

Multiple reports have come that the people of Latvia are still hearing whistles from the officials after the game has ended.

Luka Doncic full stats:

39 Points

¹¹⁄₂₅ FG (44%)

⁶⁄₉ 2PT (67%)

⁵⁄₁₆ 3PT (31%)

¹²⁄₁₅ FT (80%)

10 Rebounds

7 Assists (3 TOV)

4 PF

+/- -2

32:49 minutes plyaed.

Franz Wange:

23 Points

⁵⁄₁₇ FG (29%)

⁵⁄₁₄ 2PT (36%)

0/3 3PT (0%)

¹³⁄₁₄ FT (93%)

7 Rebounds (4 Off. Rebs)

4 Assists (1 TOV)

2 PF

+/- +4

35:34 minutes played.

Dennis Schröder:

20 Points

⁶⁄₂₀ FG (30%)

⁵⁄₁₁ 2PT (45%)

¹⁄₉ 3PT (11%)

⁷⁄₉ FT (78%)

3 Rebounds (1 Off. Reb)

7 Assists (2 TOV), 2 PF

+/- -3

34:09 minutes played

Slovenia didn’t take advantage of the poor performances by these 2

This is my formal apology to NBA refs. The amount of absurd and soft calls at both end were made in the final four minutes makes you appreciate nba refs. NBA refs generally dont interfere this much in the final minutes especially in Playoffs.

Rigged imo

So happy about the win but what in the refball was that..

Also bonga was so crucial again today!

Could’ve been game of the tournament but refs had other plans

even like this germany should beat finland again, but i dont see how they beat turkey or greece in the final if they cant get their shots to fall again

Luka is a beast 

Stupid refs tho 

Man the Slovenian roster is so ass yet Luka almost carried them to defeat the champions

Germany gonna win another tournament, eh?

Put Dennis Schroder in the hall of fame

Germany straight up had 37 FT

What a fookin bum squad luka has, this is just mavs 2.0 (before the gaff/pj/kyrie trades)

This is the worst thing Germany has ever done.

Those role players wore different shirts than the rest of the team.

The game devolved into a bunch of free throws in the last quarter. In the end Luka got a superstar whistle but otherwise every slight contact on both sides was counted as a foul.

The reffing…. omg. Bad calls on both sides. But I DO have to say, the German team coped extremely well with that situation and didn’t complain to the refs even a fraction of what the whole Slovenian team, where everybody tried to be on the same insane complaining level of Luca, did. Jesus… (blablabla, only because they knew the game was rigged in their favour, Blabla inc.)

I don’t get why the refs get blamed. Did ya’ll watch a different game? They were fouling left and right.. what do you want them to do? Not call them?

Slovenia made this game a drag by bitching and whining since the first minute. They should’ve given luka a second tech, the only reason they didn’t is because he’s a superstar.

Does Fiba have some review board for the refs? Cause holy shit this was a horrible game to watch.

This is so fuckin ugly.

Not as ugly as luka sat for 2 minutes and 9-pt lead was just erased.

I don’t think we win this without Tristans buzzer beater. Amazing game from Slovenia. That was more than scary.

Hahahaha. When Luka got 20 FTA in a game earlier this tournament apparently they were all deserved, but although Slovenia were hacking the Germans all game, it’s rigged against Doncic 😂

Slovenia wasn’t even supposed to get out of the group stage honestly, this is one of the biggest carry jobs I have ever seen since checks notes Luka Doncic taking the Mavs to a WCF with Dwight Powell as his center.

Part of me is happy because if you guys saw some of the games the intensity of these EuroBasket games are really high, really cool to watch but I was expecting him to be injured coming out of every game they played.

Now back to me wanting him to win 8 straight rings while also hating the Lakers and wanting the Mavericks to end the season with 10 wins.

Refball ftw

Why is Luka’s go-to shot in the clutch a highly contested deep three?

I didn’t watch but good to see that it sounds like my superstar is in mid season form of play and complaining to the refs lol

I’ve followed the Magic for years and I’m a huge fan of Franz, but seeing him constantly shoot terribly from the field is so concerning. I really thought that would have flipped by now. Even if he’s not an elite 3-pt shooter, he should be talented enough to shoot close to 50% from the field.

Really hoping Bane’s shooting further unlocks Franz and Paolo

They are trying to piss off Luka so he can take revenge on the rest of the NBA next year.

Someone tell Slovenia that they don’t have to shoot their 3s from so far away

What a mess of a game

Was weird rooting for Luka. Didn’t like that at all

The officiating for this game was all over the place. Germany could not even breath on Luka or play defense against him and the national without getting to the line in the 1st half.

Germany looked ugly and out of rhythm and had more free throws than made field goals early on. The entire game was constant dead balls and free throws. Boring match overall.

Next round is hopefully for exiting for Germany.

Slovenia, led by Luka, played a tremendous game by implementing a very clear strategy: preventing Germany from developing its fast game. To achieve this, the Slovenians accumulated a lot of fouls early in the match, which proved to be more of a handicap towards the end, but they had no other choice.

Their game plan was the right one; they missed just a few things to achieve the feat. Notably, Luka didn’t pick up his fourth foul so early. Defensively, he did his best afterward, but he couldn’t commit anymore.

Luka then lacked success in the heated moments at the end of Q4. Fatigue probably played a role as well.

The turning point also came at the end of Q3. Slovenia led by nearly 10 points with 1 minute and 30 seconds left in the quarter. Luka came off to rest, which was normal given the battle in Q4, but then Tristan da Silva sank a 3-pointer from midcourt, and then another play. It was back to -4, as I remember, and then at the start of Q4, Germany took advantage of two Slovenian errors on offense to regain the lead.

Then it was over; Germany wouldn’t give up.

Wagner didn’t make much, but fortunately, he was tremendous on free throws. It was the same story for Schroder, who struggled all game. Fortunately, the Germans had more depth on the bench and were able to count on Maodo Lô and Johannes Thiemann.

The semifinal against Finland will be very interesting to watch.

Refs overcame Slovenia

Nikolic was horrendous. Worst performance I’ve seen in a while. Can’t dribble, slow af, can’t stay in front of his man, stupid fouls constantly, couldn’t make a shot. How was this guy on the floor the whole time before he finally fouled out is a mystery. +/- isn’t the best metric but at some point he was -17 in a tied game. Slovenia was playing 4 against 6. Too much for Luka that got himself in foul trouble way too early. You could feel in the third Germany was inevitable.

ref fans eating good today

Luka rests for the NBA now.

I said he need 40+ to win and sadly I was right, didn’t predict refs being that garbage though

Welp guess I’m rooting for slim jesus now. Let’s go!!!

A few things:

• Luka is a still a whiny little bitch
• Slovenia were at the refs the whole game, every single foul was supposedly nothing 
• Luka looks the same to me, a bit thinner maybe but he’s still amazing aside from the foul baiting.
• Luka got a very favourable whistle despite his reputation and whining
• referees did start to call damn near everything, but lots of respect for their composure 
• Wagner was ass and neither him nor Schroder could really initiate the offense
• those 2 miracle threes end of 3rd and beginning of 4th just made Germany blow it open
• Germany was playing very chaotic, offensively just did a lot of whatever, were out hustled and still won the game. Kind of crazy 

Refs were ass. Not an easy win for Germany.

What’s sga in German

Holy fuck, I get that a qua ter final is emotional but after every single call (and done were dodgy yes) every Slowenien player complaining and making money gestures was so infuriating to watch

The refs were basically nba ones lmao

Man this game with refs who let them play would have been a classic. Horrible soft calls on both sides